Incorporating frequent questions and student discussion into direct instruction helps boost engagement with the material.

Artifacts from ancient civilisations provide invaluable insights into the cultural, political, and spiritual lives of early ...

Show more An ancient Babylonian text, Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, forbids the cutting down of street trees without permission. Nearly 4000 years later, threats to our urban trees still arouse the ...

Life is full of contradictions, each one more paradoxical than the next. A child – or a visitor from outer space – would be perplexed to hear that humans learn more from failures than successes, or ...

The so-called Hammurabi Code is thought to date back to 1762 BC. Its epilogue proclaims that “the powerful may not oppress the weak; the law must protect widows and orphans (…) in order to bring ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

New discoveries at an ancient city in Iraq, including written tablets and a game board, may shed light on its hidden history.